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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. (old.reddit.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So, how to spoof chrome?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Spoofing the agent only makes it look like Firefox is being used less, and websites will care even less about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Use extensions that change your user agent

You can find them in add-ons store

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Find an extension to change your user agent